|
Bisty Q. posted:Can we do that thing where SloMo can only post in one forum and can we make it BFC? He only posts in this thread anyway
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 12:01
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 19:16 |
|
|
He had some great posts in the breakup thread and they eventually called him out on his petty, stupid bullshit.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 13:37
|
|
|
Horking Delight posted:Okay, I admit that's a pretty great quote, but SlowMo's an idiot, not a sociopath. So you haven't read the novel excerpts, then?
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 13:39
|
|
|
Nam Taf posted:IMO the admins should just disable SloMo's ban list so he has to read every single post here. +1 for this idea, sounds pretty great. However I think that'd pretty much drive him off completely 'cause he can't handle the "haters".
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:00
|
|
|
Slowmo has to either work a lot more or ditch his apartment for something half the rent to make any meaningful headway in his finances (His rent is currently 52% of his takehome). Selling his loving car would be a good start too. However: Usually I'm still hoping someone gets their act together, but in Slowmo's case I really don't care. He's earned any financial hardship he's brought on himself, we're on page 164 a year and a half later ignoring literally all the worthwhile advice given. Here's your quarterly reminder that you are not impressing anyone or even remotely interesting. Please carry on being a self important twat so we can at least feel infinite smugness in your misery.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:04
|
|
|
Nam Taf posted:At least you can wear your sweet outfit when you attempt to fail the exam again next time! Jesus christ, what a douchebag. And he failed. How does a person get to be so cocky, smug, and arrogant, while consistently failing? I'm seriously at a loss.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:10
|
|
|
April posted:How does a person get to be so cocky, smug, and arrogant, while consistently failing? I'm seriously at a loss. Delusion is a hell of a drug.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:12
|
|
|
April posted:Jesus christ, what a douchebag. And he failed. Because at the end of the day, he sees himself taking home a hefty chunk and values himself by that. The fact that it's there and gone doesn't get into his decision making process.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:13
|
|
|
Slow Motion posted:I'm alive. Nicaragua was great. Failed MLC a second time. poo poo got real after returning to seatown. I'm getting back on the budget bandwagon. Details to follow. I didn't realize you were ever on the budget bandwagon. But, congratulations on deciding to finally make a budget and stick to it. Looking forward to your February budget over the next couple days.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:36
|
|
|
dreesemonkey posted:Slowmo has to either work a lot more or ditch his apartment for something half the rent to make any meaningful headway in his finances (His rent is currently 52% of his takehome). Selling his loving car would be a good start too. However: Anyway, what's the hobby?
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:42
|
|
|
Dr. Stab posted:I didn't realize you were ever on the budget bandwagon. But, congratulations on deciding to finally make a budget and stick to it. Looking forward to your February budget over the next couple days. Yeah, he should make a thread about his financial troubles and his plan to fix them.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:44
|
|
|
Dr. Stab posted:I didn't realize you were ever on the budget bandwagon. But, congratulations on deciding to finally make a budget and stick to it. Looking forward to your February budget over the next couple days. If you're really lucky he might make his January budget in the next few days.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:48
|
|
|
District Selectman posted:I've been pretty good at my slowmo prognostication so far. I am going to go with a surprise pregnancy. Has all the elements. +1 Although actually taking responsiility as the father isn't very baller. I feel like we're just going to start seeing a child support line item in his budget now.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 14:53
|
|
|
Dr. Stab posted:I didn't realize you were ever on the budget bandwagon. But, congratulations on deciding to finally make a budget and stick to it. Looking forward to your February budget over the next couple days. You mean on February 10th right?
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 15:15
|
|
|
District Selectman posted:I've been pretty good at my slowmo prognostication so far. I am going to go with a surprise pregnancy. Has all the elements. Please be the ex wife.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 15:43
|
|
wins.
|
xergm posted:+1 paying child support isn't baller, he'll get an arrest warrant in Alaska instead "yeah baby, I'm a wanted man. now hand me some goofballs."
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 16:40
|
|
|
If SloMo loses his job, the 401k loan needs to be paid back posthaste, right?
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 17:07
|
|
|
Nah, he'll just treat it as a withdrawal and take the tax hit. If he stays unemployed all year it won't be too bad!
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 17:12
|
|
|
Engineer Lenk posted:If SloMo loses his job, the 401k loan needs to be paid back posthaste, right? Yeah, but that's no problem! It will just be paid out of his 401k (with taxes/early withdrawal penalties)!
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 17:13
|
|
|
Quantum Finger posted:Seriously for real. If you do nothing else, stop drinking out of your decanters, they are poisoning you. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/027869159490202X quote:The results of this investigation support the concept that sufficient ageing of Pb crystal prior to use reduces, to acceptable levels, the human health risk to adults associated with consumption of beverages stored in Pb crystal decanters. The used ones from estate sales are likely to be fine, at least if the owner actually used them. The new ones would probably benefit from some repeat store/dump cycles with vinegar/citric acid/sacrificial alcohol, though.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 20:58
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:The used ones from estate sales are likely to be fine, at least if the owner actually used them. The new ones would probably benefit from some repeat store/dump cycles with vinegar/citric acid/sacrificial alcohol, though. Finally, some useful information out of the Slow Motion failthread. Would you use pure vinegar or a diluted solution? I have a lot of Waterford crystal that I should probably soak for awhile.
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 22:57
|
|
|
use piss for authenticity
|
|
#
?
Jan 29, 2015 23:19
|
|
|
Finally caught up with this thread. What a ride. Slow Motion, bro. gently caress the haters, let's party sometime!
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 00:08
|
|
|
Droo posted:Finally, some useful information out of the Slow Motion failthread. Going by the paper, "Yoon et al. (1976) have shown that Pb release from glass is enhanced as the pH is decreased" (...) " Yoon et al. (1976) have demonstrated that lead release from glazes is directly proportional to the acidity of the beverage. Citric acid (10%) and acetic acid (5%) with a pH of 1.75 and 2.55, respectively, effected the highest Pb flux compared with liquids of higher pH. They noted that lead release was linear in the pH range 4.8 to 1.75. Household vinegar is roughly 5% acetic acid and would probably be effective in depleting crystal of the majority of extractable lead. " Undiluted sounds good, then; if you can get your hands on anything stronger that'd be even better. (Citric acid should be possible to find.) They used a 5% nitric acid solution for two months, flush/clean/measure, and repeat for another two months. After those four months, the numbers were about the same as for one that'd seen "10 years of continuous use". That's still 2-3 times the numbers from the one with "20 years of continuous use"; I'd guess another four months of nitric acid would get you close. As for the absoute amounts, say we go for the longest they tested: 56 days (with port wine as the test liquid). First, as a reference, the limit for drinking water in the US is 50ppm. The best they saw was 50ppm, in the 20-year decanter. Great. In the 10-year decanter, they got 163 ppm. In the new decanter aged 4 months (plus two previous 56-day tests with port): 150 ppm. In the new decanter, aged 2 months (plus one previous 56-day test with port): 330 ppm. In a new decanter: 1410 ppm. Now, these are concentrations, not absolute amounts. Consider how much water/day they probably used to come up with the limit for drinking water, then compare that amount to your daily whisky intake. With that in mind, those numbers should be less scary... except for the completely new one, which is a bit massive. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Jan 30, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 01:27
|
|
|
OR! You could not use leaded crystal.  
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 01:48
|
|
|
FRINGE posted:OR! You could not use leaded crystal. Sure. Looking at those numbers, though ... even the highest number would require me to drink 1/30 of my daily drinking water intake in whisky every day just to get up to the conservative limits (which is what, a couple of servings/day?), and the aged numbers are way lower. Not to mention that this is after 8 weeks of standing around; if you just serve in one and empty it again, it's entirely safe. On the other hand, they mention seeing way higher numbers measured by other teams from decanters that were filled when new and then left standing for years. I'd dump anything stored any significant time in a newish decanter. I'll freely admit I don't own any decanters - but if I did, I'd leave it with something acidic for half a year and then never worry about it. Computer viking fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Jan 30, 2015 |
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 01:51
|
|
|
slap me silly posted:Nah, he'll just treat it as a withdrawal and take the tax hit. If he stays unemployed all year it won't be too bad! On the bright side, if that happens, he'd be officially out of debt. Until he cashes out his 401k to finance his lifestyle and ends up owing the IRS a bunch of back taxes.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 02:25
|
|
|
It's kind of sad that only new decanters will be effective on SloMo's brain. If your decanters are old and well used just cut off a section of lead pipe and drop it in the decanter. It will help with the flavour.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 04:25
|
|
|
I spent weeks slowly catching up on this thread. What a great read! Slow Motion needs to get his poo poo together. I'm sure a competitive guy like him can't feel too good about his actuary peers moving ahead of him since they're smart enough to take these exams seriously. I can't imagine his employer thinks too highly of him. I suppose he can advance if he pulls a 180 but otherwise, this is probably as good as it is going to get for him. I'm sure he will get extra pissed off when people younger than him start advancing ahead of him, if they haven't already. Which I'm sure will result in a downward spiral of drinking, ballin, and paying his ex for sex until they tell him at work that today is the last day. Then he realizes he never made an actual dent in his debt and he has no way to continue making payments and live for no more than a handful of weeks. It's made me pay a lot more attention to my finances. Also I learned to take my education opportunities seriously and to plan more thoroughly for the future. So this thread was useful after all!
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 04:58
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:Sure. Looking at those numbers, though ... even the highest number would require me to drink 1/30 of my daily drinking water intake in whisky every day just to get up to the conservative limits (which is what, a couple of servings/day?), and the aged numbers are way lower. Not to mention that this is after 8 weeks of standing around; if you just serve in one and empty it again, it's entirely safe. Does lead act like mercury, in that exposure is permanent and cumulative?
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 05:00
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:Going by the paper, "Yoon et al. (1976) have shown that'... Sorry, was channeling goon in a well.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 05:18
|
|
|
Fuschia tude posted:Does lead act like mercury, in that exposure is permanent and cumulative? Just for perspective on chronic exposure - there is now a theory that the falling violent crime rate across the nation is due to the banning of leaded gasoline. Lead (brain) damage is pernicious. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-link-gasoline http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615 quote:We now have studies at the international level, the national level, the state level, the city level, and even the individual level. Groups of children have been followed from the womb to adulthood, and higher childhood blood lead levels are consistently associated with higher adult arrest rates for violent crimes. All of these studies tell the same story: Gasoline lead is responsible for a good share of the rise and fall of violent crime over the past half century. quote:Studies have shown that exposure to lead during pregnancy reduces the head circumference of infants. In children and adults, it causes headaches, inhibits IQ and can lead to aggressive or dysfunctional behaviour. Seriously, dont use the things. "Safe amounts" of toxins are not to be trusted when there are political motivations involved. http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/06/experts-say-current-lead-poisoning-levels-are-set-too-high/ quote:The definition of lead poisoning doesn’t mean that levels below 5 microgm/dL are safe. “I like to say that no lead is good lead,” says Dr. Carla Campbell, a pediatrician at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia who also serves on an American Academy of Pediatrics council and was a non-voting member of the CDC panel. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), there is no safe level of lead; any exposure can potentially be harmful. If the vested corporations had their way, we would be drinking, eating, breathing, and bathing in their beautiful lead. http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/04/cosmos-neil-tyson-lead-industry-science-denial http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead?page=full quote:Given his immense ordeals in conducting his measurements, it's small wonder that Patterson grew attuned to the fact that lead, a potent neurotoxin, is all around us (this was the 1950s). So fresh off discovering the age of the Earth, Patterson started researching lead in the environment. He was ideally positioned to do so: After all, he really, really knew how to measure lead. quote:This is not just a textbook example of unnecessary environmental degradation, however. Nor is this history important solely as a cautionary retort to those who would doubt the need for aggressive regulation of industry, when commercial interests ask us to sanction genetically modified food on the basis of their own scientific assurances, just as the merchants of lead once did. The leaded gasoline story must also be read as a call to action, for the lead menace lives. For people that like that kind of story, its covered in some depth in "A short History of Nearly Everything" by Bryson. (Most of those articles are waaaaaaaaaay longer than the bits I pulled out, but I thought I was already over-doing it.)
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 06:10
|
|
|
You know what, considering what thread this is I think that this deserves its own post:quote:In other words - lead poisoning leads to bad decisions. The lead theorists say the poison has a time-lag effect which could not be understood until recently.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 06:14
|
|
|
Time-lag? As if it's in slow motion?
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 06:29
|
|
|
Computer viking posted:I'll freely admit I don't own any decanters - but if I did, I'd leave it with something acidic for half a year and then never worry about it. Wouldn't using acid to leach all of the lead out of the refracting surface of the crystal ruin the attractive optical qualities of the crystal compared to regular glass, thereby defeating the purpose of even owning a lead crystal decanter in the first place?
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 06:36
|
|
|
SlowMotion is now one of the most influential people in the #ypr in #vemma
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 07:10
|
|
|
FRINGE posted:OR! You could not use leaded crystal. But how do you make it sparkle like a motherfucker?
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 07:32
|
|
|
SlowMo, it's time to look at why you are failing the tests seriously, and it could well be a problem that has nothing to do with your money issues. A friend of mine who is great with his money gets test anxiety, and it's possible you have the same issue. I don't get it for knowledge based tests, but years ago a job required I needed a certain swim certification, and it included a timed endurance swim and I was always freaking out before the test day. I'd practice regularly but I ended up taking the test several times and failing the timed swim by a minute or so. Eventually a lifeguard friend helped me out, and coached me through my swim strokes. It turned out I was so concerned with making time I was sprinting, getting exhausted, and losing all steam before I could finish the test. The solution was to coach me to slow down, which after I started doing I was able to pass. Anyway, the moral of my story is the block was mental, and the solution was counter-intuitive. What ever your issue with your work exam is, try getting an expert on the subject to help you. There is something you are missing, and your career will improve if you can find the fix. Good luck.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 09:24
|
|
|
lowercase16 posted:But how do you make it sparkle like a motherfucker?  
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 09:31
|
|
|
|
| # ? May 31, 2024 19:16 |
|
|
BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Wouldn't using acid to leach all of the lead out of the refracting surface of the crystal ruin the attractive optical qualities of the crystal compared to regular glass, thereby defeating the purpose of even owning a lead crystal decanter in the first place? Someone would have to test - but the idea is that only a very thin layer is actually leached, since glass is not especially permeable. I don't know what a thin coating of reduced-lead glass on the inside would do to the optics.
|
|
#
?
Jan 30, 2015 11:34
|
|